Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iron man of the nation's Democracy. . . . We are here for serious business. Our object is not to name a nominee, but to elect a President . . ."? Charles M. Howell nominating Missouri's Reed...
Baptists to the number of 7,000 drew together in Toronto for the Fourth Quinquennial Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, a purely advisory organization. They discussed industrial problems, militarism, the spiritual rebuilding of China, missionary work, the unfoldings of the Baptist faith in other countries. No serious disputes or differences marked the genial and progressive activities of the congress...
...Serious-minded visitors, to whom aviation is first an industry, then a fine art, concentrated on the start of the fourth National Air Tour. Twenty-five planes, ranging from two-seater "flivvers" to trimotored, all-metal monoplanes, carefully handicapped for speed and weight, took off from Ford Airport at one-minute intervals, ready to fly 6,300 miles swiftly, safely, reliably...
...models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious business of aviation...
Before politicians loomed the serious prospect of a schism within the State Church so grave as perhaps to lead to its disestablishment-a possibility seriously dwelt upon, last week, by Mr. Baldwin...